Matthäus Hetzenauer, born 23-12-1924 in Brixem im Thale, was an Austrian sniper in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. He served in the 3rd Mountain Division on the Eastern Front, who was credited with 345 kills. His longest confirmed kill was reported at 1,100 meters (1,200 yards). Hetzenauer was also a recipient of the Knight Cross of the Iron… Read more »
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Under them Adolf Eichmann, Roland Freisler, Heinrich Müller and Erich Neumann. The purpose of the conference, called by director of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government… Read more »
The age of the paratrooper arrived with the Second World War. For a brief yet significant period until the rise of the transport helicopter, paratroopers were the only effective way to launch airborne invasions, bypassing defensive lines on land and hostile fleets at sea. The first great paratroop invasion, and one which proved the decisive… Read more »
Educated at West Point, George Smith Patton (1885-1945) began his military career leading cavalry troops against Mexican forces and became the first officer assigned to the new U.S. Army Tank Corps during World War I. Promoted through the ranks over the next several decades, he reached the high point of his career during World War… Read more »
May 10th, 1940 to June 14th, 1940. The armistice between France and Germany was signed on June 22nd .The majority of the battles centered within Belgium up to the Channel coast and across northern France. Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler and his Generals planned the conquest of France and the Low… Read more »